Neel Natu
Software Engineer at FreeBSD Project
Saratoga, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeel Natu is a systems-focused software engineer with over a decade of experience building everything from tiny embedded devices to enterprise-class storage and virtualization platforms. He co-created and leads development of bhyve, the FreeBSD hypervisor, and contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as gVisor, where he has improved core filesystem and eventfd behaviors. His background spans kernel and low-level work—Linux scheduler and virtualization at Google, fault-tolerant storage at NetApp, and embedded OS features for Apache Mynewt—bringing deep expertise in RAS, virtualization, and embedded architectures. Based in Saratoga, CA, he pairs hands-on engineering with long-term stewardship of open-source platforms, an uncommon blend of product-grade reliability and community leadership.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Fergusson CollegeMuktanganMS, Computer Networking, MS, Computer Networking at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBS, Electronics and Telecommunications, BS, Electronics and Telecommunications at College of Engineering, Pune, India
Github Skills (17)
filesystem10
linux10
c1110
n10
c1710
kernel10
go10
sys10
kernel-mode10
embedded10
operating-system10
container9
system-calls9
concurrency8
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mynewt-core
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 10 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neel primarily focused on implementing core features related to time and date handling within the OS. They added functionality for parsing and formatting RFC 3339 compliant datetime strings, along with a shell command to set and get the wallclock time. These changes involved modifying existing date/time libraries and adding new functionality to support time-related operations in the embedded operating system. These changes provide the fundamental datetime manipulation capabilities for the mynewt-core operating system.
mynewtsecurely
google/gvisor
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Application Kernel for Containers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Neel's contributions primarily involve modifying the core components of gvisor, focusing on file system functionalities. They implemented features like controlling filesystem visibility in `/proc/filesystems` and adding an API to decode `stat.st_rdev`. Additional work includes the addition of the `HostFD` method and relevant updates related to eventfd operations. Furthermore, the user also contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the project by addressing issues related to `madvise` and futex, and implementing a fix for initialization in `SigaltstackTest`.
containerskernelseccomplinuxsandbox
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